Nothing happened.

Donna waited for the other shoe to drop from her office in the East Wing. She waited for someone to say something slanderous about her and Josh. She waited for someone to say Josh couldn't do his job.

No one did.

So Mary Marsh went on the Sunday Morning Circuit. She looked like a fool when Chris Mathews quietly asked her if Josh should have been fired for getting shot and she sputtered.

It was over. The deep dark secret faded into the back ground. Donna shook her head in confusion.

"Can I ask you something?" She asked turning her body under the sheets towards her husband.

"Since when do you ask to ask?" He mumbled from behind closed eyes.

"Josh."

"What Donnatella?"

"Why was it going to be an issue? All of it?" She blinked at him.

"CJ's reason or mine?" He asked opening his eyes to hers.

"Both."

"Well.. I think that we.. all of us.. though people cared to much about who was sleeping with who. I mean Sam screwed a prostitute and that went away. But you and me? We're too risky? It don't know. They never really told us we couldn't."

"What about you?"

"I thought they'd take you away from me." His eyes had closed again, and his voice was almost inaudible. "I couldn't have handled it."

"Josh." She brought her hand up to his cheek.

"Why are we talking about this? I don't want to-."

"I'm sorry." She told him quietly, her voice lost somewhere in the past.

"Donna.." Hewarnedher in an almost pleading whisper. "I couldn't handle it."

"You have me Josh. No one can take me away." She moved closer and tucked herself under his chin and he possessively circled his arm around her pressing her lower back and drawing her closer into him. He skimmed his other hand across the outline of her rounded body. She stopped his hand and pressed it into her until he could feel the soft flutters of their child. "Noah and I.." She said softly. "You're stuck with us."

He had tried to suppress the wary sigh of almost relief, but she heard it anyway, pulling him closer.

"Josh. She leaves today." Sam looked at him for a long time after he said it. Josh wondered what he wanted him to say.

"So what like I should say goodbye?" He muttered.

"She's your friend." The Deputy Cheif of Staff rolled his eyes.

"Yeah. Not so much anymore." The words snuck out under his breath.

"Josh.. Nine years.. You're going to toss out nine years over one stupid conversation?"He watchedSam shake his head ashe spoke.

"Donna sent her a card." Josh told him weakly.

"Josh Come on." Sam had dug in his heals on this.

"I can't okay?" He said finally shaking his head back at Sam. "I can't."

"Josh.."

"We can't get beyond CJ, Josh, CJ, Josh.. it's rediculous." He picked up his papers off of the desk. "He's got a thing." He pointed towards the oval and Sam nodded.

"How about 'have a safe trip?' Can you say that?" His bestfriend offered.

"Sam." He groaned.

"It's CJ and she's leaving." Sam said softy.

"Yeah." He huffed out.

"Okay?" Sam lifted his eyebrows.

"Yeah." Josh told him before beaking eye contact and slipping into the Oval.

"So how do you transport a goldfish?" CJ looked towards the voice.

"Joshua?" She hadn't noticed the secret service walk through. Maybe she'd grown so accustom to them she'd forgotten that normal society didn't included armed gaurds

"You can call off your.." He flipped his hand back towardsToby who hovered in the doorway behind him.

"I'll be.." Ziegler began.

"I come in peace." Josh called corsly over his head. "Down boy."

CJ watched him leave and turned back towards the last remaining peices of her life.

"I didn't think you'd-."

"Yah Well.You know." He shook his head. "So how do you?"

"Very carefully.. I had to get a presurized tank with a filter.. big mess." She pointed at Gayle and the equipment. "I should have let Danny do it."

"Yeah."

"Yeah." She turned back towards him. "So.. Lately.. it's been brought to my attention that I lack essential qualities that aide in social emotional conversations."

"Wow."

"Yeah." She looked away again. "Josh.. I don't know what to say."

"Yeah me neither." He rubbed his hand through his hair. "I don't know what to say. But I needed to say goodbye."

"We had a good run didn't we?" Her eyes were hopeful. "I mean it was good."

"It was." He told her softly shaking his head slowly. "So you're going to fix the world?"

"Yeah.. looks like it."

"Good."

"So you'll be ruling said world."

"I'll have help.. but yeah.. looks like it."

"Good."

They stood in silence until Toby cleared his throat and tapped his watch.Josh nodded giving CJ a once over before hugging her quickly and making his way out the door.

"He came in peace?" Toby asked quietly.

"He came for peace." CJ told him softly picking up her fish and turning towards her friend. "Lets go."